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  • NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Completes Uncrewed Artemis I Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Completes Uncrewed Artemis I Mission

    NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft returned to Earth and made a parachute-assisted splashdown on Sunday in the Pacific Ocean after 25.5 days of traveling around the moon as part of the Artemis I mission. Artemis I is an unmanned flight test that took off on Nov. 16 from a launch complex at Kennedy Space Center in […] More

  • AWS' Dave Levy on Meeting DOD's Mission Needs Through Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS’ Dave Levy on Meeting DOD’s Mission Needs Through Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability Contract

    Amazon Web Services and three other vendors secured spots on the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract and Dave Levy, vice president of U.S. government, nonprofit and health care at AWS, said the company will work to deliver capabilities to support DOD and its mission through the JWCC vehicle. Levy, a four-time Wash100 […] More

  • Paperless Innovations on Use of Commercial SaaS Tech to Reduce Purchase Card Program Risks; Mike Tocci Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paperless Innovations on Use of Commercial SaaS Tech to Reduce Purchase Card Program Risks; Mike Tocci Quoted

    Paperless Innovations has stated that commercial off-the-shelf software-as-a-service platforms could help government agencies advance workforce automation and reduce procurement card program risks in compliance with the requirements of the Office of Management and Budget’s Circular A-123. Paperless said Friday OMB Circular A-123 seeks to create standard requirements and best practices for government purchase card programs […] More

  • Boeing Subsidiary to Continue Work on Active Flow Control X-Plane Program Under DARPA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Subsidiary to Continue Work on Active Flow Control X-Plane Program Under DARPA Contract

    Boeing’s Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary has received a potential $42.2 million contract to perform work on the next phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks to demonstrate an aircraft design based on active flow control. Aurora will work on the second and third phases of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with […] More

  • DOD Backs Kinetic Tech Production via Contract Awards; Halimah Najieb-Locke Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOD Backs Kinetic Tech Production via Contract Awards; Halimah Najieb-Locke Quoted

    The Department of Defense has awarded contracts through the Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment and Defense Production Act Title III programs in a push to reduce supply chain vulnerabilities associated with the production of kinetic weapons systems for national security use. The office of the assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy within the […] More

  • Google Cloud Service Gets DISA Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Google Cloud Service Gets DISA Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization

    Google Cloud’s service offering has received a Defense Information Systems Agency provisional authorization to host Department of Defense data at Impact Level 5. DISA said Tuesday the IL5 provisional authorization covers several services, including BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Cloud Hardware Security Module, Cloud Key Management Service, Google Compute Engine, Identity and Access Management, Persistent Disk […] More

  • Raytheon's Shane Zabel on 4 Steps to Consider in AI Strategy Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s Shane Zabel on 4 Steps to Consider in AI Strategy Development

    Shane Zabel, artificial intelligence technology director for Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business, said there are four steps organizations should consider as they develop and implement their AI strategies and the first two are understanding the technology and its potential impact on the organization and identifying potential processes where they can implement AI. Zabel told […] More

  • Peraton's Andrew Hallman: Intelligence Agencies Should Reimagine Digital Foundations to Drive Innovation, Collaboration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peraton’s Andrew Hallman: Intelligence Agencies Should Reimagine Digital Foundations to Drive Innovation, Collaboration

    Andrew Hallman, vice president of national security strategy and integration at Peraton and a previous Wash100 awardee, said agencies within the intelligence community looking to use emerging technologies to maintain their edge over adversaries should develop a secure digital foundation by transitioning to secure cloud environments that could help them make better use of data. […] More

  • SBA, DOD Unveil Small Business Investment Company Critical Technologies Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SBA, DOD Unveil Small Business Investment Company Critical Technologies Initiative

    The Small Business Administration and the Department of Defense have launched an initiative to drive investments in critical technologies that are key to national security. The Small Business Investment Company Critical Technologies Initiative advances the current administration’s commitment to building the country’s national security innovation base by scaling new technology platforms. “Earlier this week, I […] More

  • ARL, Amyx & Edgewater to Support Energy Department's CFO Office; William Schaefer Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ARL, Amyx & Edgewater to Support Energy Department’s CFO Office; William Schaefer Quoted

    Acquisition, Research and Logistics will work with Amyx and Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide Corporate Business Systems support services to the Department of Energy’s office of the chief financial officer under a potential five-year, $20 million contract. The OCFO contract awarded through the DOE Professional and Administrative Support Services blanket purchase agreement includes consulting, administrative, […] More